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The federal government is partially shut down again.

This as Democrats press for policy changes to put more checks on federal immigration officers after the killings of two U.S.

citizens in Minneapolis this month.

NPR's Sam Gringless reports.

A federal judge has ordered the government to release a father and his five-year-old son who were taken into custody during the crackdown on immigration in a Minneapolis suburb earlier this month.

Judge Fred Beery condemned what he called a perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty.

The federal agency in charge of Medicare announced this week that it plans to hold rates flat in Medicare Advantage next year.

As NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports, the private companies that run it have been accused of overcharging taxpayers.

In the eastern part of the United States, over 200 million people are under cold weather advisories and winter storm warnings this weekend.

Appalachian states, the Carolinas, and even Georgia are bracing for up to a foot of snow.

And in the eastern part of the U.S., in general, temperatures are unusually frigid.

South Carolina Public Radio's Victoria Hansen reports from Charleston that clearing the roads is likely to take a while.

South Carolina Public Radio's Victoria Hansen.

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There's a new American charge d'affaires in Venezuela.

Laura Dogu has arrived in Caracas to reopen the American diplomatic mission.

After a seven-year lull, this follows the U.S.

military action that resulted in the removal of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.